Catamenial pad.



PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904.

Jj L. MINGBS.

GATAMENIAL PAD.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 16, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

lUrviTEn STATES Patented August 30, 1904.

JOHN L. MlNGES, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

CATAMENIAL PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,861, dated August 30, 1904.

Application filed April 16, 1904. Serial No. 203,489. (No model.)

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Bc it known that I, JOHN L. MrNGEs, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oatamenial Pads, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in catamenial pads; and it has for its objects, among others, to provide an improved pad having an open pocket for the reception and retention of a mass of absorbent cotton or similar fibrous material and strings or tapes or the like for application to -the bo( y of the wearer in such a manner as to hold the pad securely in proper position, yet rendering the same perfectly comfortable. The wall of the pocket nearest the body of the wearer is of netting or scrim or some analogous open-mesh material that will serve to hold the mass of cotton in place, and yet act as little as possible as a barrier to resist absorption by the cotton.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be specifically defined by the appended claim.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the numerals of reference marked thereon, form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a form with my improvement shown in position for use. Fig. 2 is a rear view thereof. Fig. 3 is an enlarged elevation of the pad looking' at the side or face which lies adjacent the body of the wearer in use. Fig. 4 is a substantially central longitudinal section through the same.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several Views.

In the drawings, l designates a substantially V-shaped piece of closely or firmly woven cloth of proper length and width, preferably hemmed at the edges, and this piece is cut transversely, as along the line 3 3 in Fig.

4, and to the bottom edge of the upper portion there is afliXed, by sewing or otherwise, a piece 2 of netting, scrim, or some other coarse or open woven material, its, side edges being aHiXed, by sewing or otherwise, to the side edges of the lower portion 4 of the V- shaped piece, it being understood that thus an open external pocket 5 is formed, into the mouth 6 of which is designed to be placed a mass of absorbent cotton or suitable fibrous material 7. as seen in Fig. 4.

8 designates strings or tapes or the like secured at one end to the upper corners of the piece 1, while 9 designates similar' tapes or strings secured at the lower corners.

l() designates tapes or strings secured to opposite sides of the lower edge of the upper portion of the V-shaped piece, as seen best in Figs. 3 and 4.

ln practice the device is applied as seen in Figs. 1 and Q, the open-work piece 2 being disposed neXt the body of the wearer, and being of open mesh it will not in any wayinterfere with the free absorption by the cotton. The strings or tapes are all tied in front, as shown in Fig. l. The pocket is on the under or out side, opening in front, as shown in Fig. 4, so that the contents of the pocket may be easily withdrawn and replaced by fresh cotton without disturbing the device in any way. rFhe device is put on with the wide end at the top, as shown, and the strings 8 8 tied around the Waist, as shown,tying in front. The

strings 9 9 pass obliquely upward at the back, around the hips, as shown in Fig. 2, and tie in front of the legs onto the strings lO 10, as clearly seen in Fig. l. The pad is thus firmly yet comfortably held upon the person of the wearer and is prevented from falling downward; yet there is no undue strain on the hips or other part of the body.

The portion 4 might be of different material from the piece l, as indicated in Fig. 4.

lV hat is claimed as new is- A catamenial pad formed of a piece of material, a piece of open-mesh material secured to its lower edge, a pieee secured along the edges of the open-mesh material and forming the opposite Wall of am open external pocket, and strings at the top, bottom and near the middle of the pad, all as and for the purpose Specified.

In witness whereof .I have hereunto set my hemd, this Mth day otl April, 1904, in the presenee of two Subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN L. MINGES.

' Tituessesz ENOS B. vWHITMORE, MINNIE SMITH. 

